It’s our future

Published: 2 December, 2010

• IT’S odd that at the very moment the council is planning huge cut-backs of £90million it is also considering a redevelopment in Gospel Oak. 

Hardly surprising that local people might think the two are connected. 

The current shoddy blocks only exist because of a top-down, ill-conceived, regeneration plan in the 1970s. If the council wants to make Gospel Oak a better place to live it has to adopt a bottom-up approach and make sure all residents, including council tenants and leaseholder groups, are in the driving seat. People here can be part of solving problems imaginatively and in an eco-friendly way. The council needs to set up some kind of regeneration board which will give the people of Gospel Oak the power to determine their own future.

SALLY GIMSON
Oak Village, NW5